I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

What you are comes to you.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.